A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

¹And thirdly, Hereby also the Almighty power of God is exceedingly glorified in preserving us thorough Faith unto Salvation; notwithstanding our own violent inclination and proneness to sin unto our ⟨p. 233⟩own destruction; though St. Peter, when he walked upon dry Land, was upheld by the Power of Christ as God; •et that Power was not so remarkably glorious in his preservation, and walking upon the dry Land, as when Christ •ent him his hand, and upheld him from •inking, when he walked and stood upon the surface of the Water; because •hen he had a proneness and propension •n him to sink more than when he stood upon the dry Land: So truly I may say •hat the standing of the glorified Saints •n Heaven in a State of Holiness, although •t may be, and is a Work of God's Almighty Power; yet it seems not altogether so much to magnify the Power of God, in preserving them in that State of Holiness and Glory, no not to Eternity, as it doth to preserve a poor weak Christian one day in a State of Grace; because there is no proneness in a glorified Saint to fall from his happiness into Sin, but there is in a Saint on Earth to •all from Grace, and from the Work of God upon his Soul.²

¹And thirdly, Hereby also the Almighty power of God is exceedingly glorified in preserving us thorough Faith unto Salvation; notwithstanding our own violent inclination and proneness to sin unto our ⟨p. 233⟩own destruction; though St. Peter, when he walked upon dry Land, was •pheld by the Power of Christ as God; •et that Power was not so remarkably glorious in his preservation, and walking upon the dry Land, as when Christ ent him his hand, and upheld him from inking, when he walked and stood upon the surface of the Water; because hen he had a proneness and propension n him to sink more than when he stood upon the dry Land: So truly I may say hat the standing of the glorified Saints n Heaven in a State of Holiness, altho t may be, and is a Work of God's Almighty Power; yet it seems not altogether so much to magnifie the Power of God, in preserving them in that State of Holiness and Glory, no not to Eternity, as it doth to preserve a poor weak Christian one day in a State of Grace; because there is no proneness in a glorified Saint to fall from his happiness into Sin, but there is in a Saint on Earth to all from Grace, and from the Work of God upon his Soul.